. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . o be the most up-to-date tea factories in the world. Theyare capable of manufacturing between them 15,000 1b. of tea per day duringthe season, which ranges from August to June. The processes of tea-making are most interesting to watch—includingthe work of the withering-room, the rolling machines, the fermenting, cooking,sorting, blending, packing, labelling, loading, etc. What with the din of themachinery (worked by a gigantic electrical plant from the Umvoti River), theconstant bustle—without confusion—a blind visitor might imagine
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . o be the most up-to-date tea factories in the world. Theyare capable of manufacturing between them 15,000 1b. of tea per day duringthe season, which ranges from August to June. The processes of tea-making are most interesting to watch—includingthe work of the withering-room, the rolling machines, the fermenting, cooking,sorting, blending, packing, labelling, loading, etc. What with the din of themachinery (worked by a gigantic electrical plant from the Umvoti River), theconstant bustle—without confusion—a blind visitor might imagine a greatLancashire cotton factory had been dumped down in this quiet and beautifuldistrict of the Garden Province. The whole enterprise is a marvellous exampleof what can be accomplished by indomitable pluck and perseverance. It is estimated that the total acreage in the Province now planted withtea, fully bearing, amounts to at least 4,000 acres, and that about a further2,000 acres are planted with tea not yet in full bearing. The estimated total 276.
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